I have been noticing lately just how important titles are for search engine optimization.  You should have page titles on your site for whatever it is you want high google ranking for.  Clearly, this isn’t the only thing to consider, although it does make a huge difference.  I find that wordpress sites are great for getting up in the search engines since every tag you add to your posts is automatically made into a page with that title.  It’s good to keep your titles short and to the point, and pack your keywords in a the beginning of the title.

Here are some other good places to put keywords:

• Alt tags on images
• Headings (h1-h6 tags)
• Article content (bold keywords)
• Meta Keywords
• Links
• File names
• Unordered/Ordered Lists

If you put your keywords in all these places it will surely help a lot.

Another thing that really helps  is getting in-bound-links from other related pages and articles.  It’s also a good idea to have your keyword in those links.  For example if you website is about fishing you would want the word fishing to link to your website from other fishing websites.  I also read somewhere that linking to websites with a high rank can actually enhance yours as well.

Another tip is to have a site map, because google can crawl your page easier if you have one.  Also, you may want to make a robots.txt file on your server.

If you have any other insights about search engine optimization go ahead and leave them as comments.  I appreciate feedback from other users experiences with this science.  If you need help with SEO, I am your guy.  I have 11 years experience building websites that make it to the first page of google.  Be sure to check out my web design portfolio to see examples of my work.